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STEC is a leading global provider of Solid State technologies and solutions tailored to meet the high-performance, high reliability needs of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
With headquarters in Santa Ana, California and worldwide locations, STEC leverages nearly two decades of Solid State knowledge and experience to deliver the industry's most comprehensive line of Solid State Drives. STEC's mission is to provide the world's highest level of quality, reliability and innovation to the storage industry with the directive to advance Solid State technology for emerging storage applications.
STEC believes that unique challenges demand unique solutions, and everything we do is to that end. By listening to our customers we are able to develop and support them on all levels of their evolving needs.
To provide the world's highest level of quality, reliability and innovation for advanced memory and storage solutions.
STEC believes that quality, reliability and innovation should always be at the forefront of what we do. To ensure this, we have developed and will continue to enhance our extensive capabilities in product development, testing, and support.
STEC's operational excellence based on the lean manufacturing concepts and total quality management, augments its leading technology products to deliver the highest values to its customers. The services are also extended to provision of international Hubs and Just-In-Time deliveries based on specific customer requirements.
STEC is a global engineering and manufacturing company, offering high-reliability OEM memory and storage solutions with extensive value-added services to satisfy the needs of any application.
From a simple hard drive replacement to the most sophisticated storage array the STEC SSD products are suited for the task. With leading edge controller and drive designs that incorporate proprietary Flash management solutions STEC has the SSD product for any situation. From the world's fastest random access ZeusIOPS drives for streaming large arrays of data, to the best in class performance of the MACH8 product family, STEC can provide the most complete array of SSDs in the marketplace today.
Powered by our proprietary controller technologies, STEC Flash solutions define the industry standard for reliability, performance, and flexibility. Our advanced Flash management, embedded security features and complete product breath covering a wide array of interfaces and form factor translate into the industry's most comprehensive Flash offering.
STEC OEM grade DRAM modules are high-capacity, high-performance, and high-reliability modules designs for the demanding needs of servers, telecom, embedded applications, and other complex products. These modules are developed using STEC's world-class engineering, testing, and volume manufacturing expertise. These modules are customizable to meet the need of non-standard system or application requirements.
We are an award-winning supplier to the OEM market. In order to achieve this, we focus on the OEM market - and solely on the OEM market. This sharp focus combined with our cutting-edge knowledge base enables us to respond rapidly to challenges faced by our OEM partners.
As a supplier to our OEM partners, we pride ourselves on the process and procedure that we put in place to ensure that our partners receive only award winning solutions.
Beginning by listening to our partners we are able to identify the unique needs and challenges, which enable us to develop our product definition. This will be the vehicle that drives our expert engineers to further the product in design development and to ensure that the product is directly catered to our partners. Once developed, we move the design through our world class in-house manufacturing facilities located in Penang, Malaysia. By manufacturing the design in-house we are able to directly test and reevaluate any issues or incompatibility that may occur. Through our intensive testing procedures, such as our renowned TDBI (Test During Burn In), we are able to achieve unrelenting reliability. To further ensure that our partners receive solutions of unyielding quality, STEC delivers industry-leading support. Because of our vertically integrated process control, we are able to deliver on any scale to any partner uncompromising standards. STEC is committed to delivering world class memory and storage solutions to our customers.
Every process in STEC is oriented to achieve the best quality for our customers. Our full commitment to quality is demonstrated by the ISO9001 and ISO14001 certification.
By manufacturing the design in-house we are able to directly test and reevaluate any issues or incompatibility that may occur. Through our intensive testing procedures, such as our renowned TDBI (Test During Burn In), we are able to achieve unrelenting reliability. To further ensure that our partners receive solutions of unyielding quality, STEC delivers industry-leading support.
As a supplier to our OEM partners, we pride ourselves on the process and procedure that we put in place to ensure that our partners receive not only award winning solutions but also industry -leading support. As part of our commitment to long ranging support, we support legacy products such as EDO/FPM modules developed 20 years ago.
As a leader in OEM SSD/Flash and DRAM memory technology for nearly two decades, STEC has developed a solid foundation of quality. We are only able to achieve this by developing, testing and enhancing the building blocks of our foundation, and through this we are proud to provide our customers with a comprehensive array of support and knowledge.
It is the goal of every STEC employee to exceed the quality and service expectation of our partners, every step of the way.
We believe that a successful product is the result of the right technology for the right market at the right time. STEC represents a new paradigm of OEM products and services, a total solutions approach that has been continuously fine-tuned since our inception. It is the goal of every STEC employee to exceed your quality and service expectations, every step of the way.
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 Ruggedized-SSD Products |
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Specialty Form Factors
(VLP, mini-DIMM, So-RDIMM) |
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Industrial Temperature Products |
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Ultra-high capacity solutions |
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Fixed and removable device formats |
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Low power storage solutions |
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Extensive interface expertise and
support on:
FC, SAS, SCSI, SATA, PCIe, CF, and USB Products |
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Faster answers to technical questions
by our skilled FAEs |
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Knowledgeable support and experience
on industry standards |
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Sales offices worldwide and local
support for all regions |
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Expert advice from industry-leading
engineers to help assist system design decisions |
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Better continuity of supply |
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Unbiased info on different component manufacturers
(VLP, mini-DIMM, So-RDIMM) |
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Better pricing flexibility |
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TDBI (Test During Burn In) |
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Proprietary test systems and processes designed to ensure optimal product reliability |
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Members of JEDEC |
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Members of SecureDigital Association (SDA) |
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Members of CompactFlash Association (CFA) |
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Members of PCMCIA.org |
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Members of USB Implementer Forum |
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Members of MMC Association (MMCA) |
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Qualified by CMTL |
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Member of IDEMA |
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Member of SCSI Trade Association |
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Member of ONFI |
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Member of Trusted Computing Group |
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T10 and T13 Member |
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SATA-IO |
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ONFI |
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IDEMA |
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IEEE |
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SCSI Trade Association |
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Certified Partner in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against
Terrorism (C-TPAT) Program |
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JEDEC |
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USB Implementer Forum |
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SecureDigital Association (SDA) |
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PCMCIA Organization |
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CompactFlash Association (CFA) |
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MMC Association (MMCA) |
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TCG |
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FCIA |
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Microsoft Certified (MSFT) |
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Design Qaulified by Intel Designated Test Laboratory (CMTL) |
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STA |
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ISO9001 Certified |
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ISO14001 Certified |
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STEC is oriented to achieve the best quality for our customers |
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Faster time-to-market |
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Dock-to-stock delivery |
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Kanban ID system |
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In-house controlled BOM |
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Special security features |
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Custom Labeling |
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Testing |
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Locked Bill of Materials |
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Custom module designs |
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Nearly two decades of engineering & manufacturing experience |
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Fast time-to-market and time-to-revenue |
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Worldwide distribution |
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On-site engineering & manufacturing California Headquarters |
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Extensive on-site product testing |
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Fully JEDEC Compliant |
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To achieve the highest degree of data reliability, our organization has been optimized with vital vertically-integrated functions: IC design, finished product manufacturing, rigorous industrial testing, and exhaustive environmental (ISO 14001) and quality control (ISO 9001).
Our ISO 14001 certification is applicable to our Penang manufacturing site.
STEC is a certified partner in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program.
STEC is a leading global provider of Solid State technologies and solutions tailored to meet the high-performance, high reliability needs of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
It is STEC's commitment to operate and plan activities to meet relevant environmental legislation, regulations, and company directives. STEC will strive to instill in all personnel and vendors the importance of environmental protection awareness
STEC, Inc. pledges to preserve its environment and ensure the health and safety of its employees by:
Meeting or exceeding all applicable environmental, occupational health and safety and labor laws, regulations, and other regulatory requirements;
Pursuing the control of non-regulated, but environmentally sensitive substances, as demanded by our customers where the technology is feasible and affordable in the market place;
Implementing, maintaining and continually improving our Social and Environmental Management System to prevent pollution of air, water, waste, and onsite storage activities; reduce health and safety risks; promote integrity and fair labor practices.
STEC, Inc. pledges to provide continually improving products to its customers by:
Providing innovative and technically superior products and services that meet or exceed their expectations;
Performing our work to the highest level of quality workmanship;
Continuously improving our organizational performance and capabilities;
Ensuring that suppliers meet or exceed our quality standards;
Work to achieve ever-improving customer recognized value from our products and services.
